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Introduction
I am the academic coordinator of the Department of Applied Linguistics at Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (UIC), Barcelona, where I also teach scientific English and research methods for Health Sciences and Education undergraduate and postgraduate degrees.
My primary areas of research are corpus linguistics, multilingualism, academic writing, and Integrating Content and Language in Higher Education.
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September 2016 - present
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- Professor
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- I teach content-based language courses in different bachelor and postgraduate degrees of the Health Sciences faculty
January 2014 - September 2016
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- Professor
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- Master of Bilingual Education -What is CLIL -Curriculum Planning -Experto en CLIL
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Adjunct instruction (AI), a form of content-based instruction, can provide students with opportunities to learn disciplinary discourse in context. Few studies have explored the extent to which AI affects students’ written production over time. This study aims to analyze the impact of a 60-hour AI course in English on writing complexity, accuracy, f...
This paper explores the use of adversative Linking Adverbials (LAs) in the academic writing of advanced English Foreign Language (EFL) learners with different linguistic backgrounds. The learner corpus used in this study consists of 50 argumentative texts, which are contrasted with a native corpus: the American university students’ corpus (LOCNESS)...
This study aims to explore how the speech act of requesting is performed in Catalan (L1), English (L1) and EFL classrooms by pre-primary teachers. The study examines transcripts of 40-minute video-recorded lessons (six in Catalan/L1, six in English/FL, and three in English/L1) collected in several pre-primary schools in Catalonia, Spain. Recall int...
Aquest estudi examina els efectes de l'ensenyament de llengua basat en continguts (CBI per les seves sigles en anglès) en la producció de vocabulari acadèmic en una tasca escrita de classe. Els textos van ser redactats per estudiants universitaris de primer any inscrits en dues modalitats diferents, anglès com a mitjà d'instrucció (EMI per les seve...
Lexical bundles (LBs) have been described as the 'building blocks of discourse'; in addition to being highly frequent in writing and reducing processing time for readers and writers, they also perform important functions in language. LB choice, however, can vary according to genre, discipline, and different sections of the same text, which poses a...
Academic English has often been described as a reader-oriented discourse, in which the structure, objectives and claims are made explicit and carefully framed. Metadiscourse markers help to build coherence and cohesion, and allow writers to guide their readership through their texts. Spanish EFL learners often transfer part of their L1 writing cult...
